The Second World War Created Modern Intelligence

Calder walton is the assistant director of the applied history project at the harvard kennedy school. He says bletchley park created modern intelligence as we would recognize it to day. The enigma was a cipher machine used by axis powers to communicate during the war reports from the front or orders to the german newboat fleet. But they were incrypted in such way as to make them unreadable without an enigma device cracking the code was credic to the war effi It took the combined genius of the ultra code breaking group, which included computing pioneer allan turing, to decipher the formerly uncrackable code. Some of the messages that were travelling from the